A quotation (maybe) from Thomas Carlyle

A sad spectacle! If they [other stars] be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space!

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Attributed

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